Chapter 1,266: Evacuate Overnight
As the last soldier stepped out of the city gate, the city gate was closed again. Yang Gan looked at the four commanders and said: "From now on, the city gate is not allowed to be opened without my order. No matter what you think in your heart, Everything must be done according to my requirements. As for Tang Jun, I will take care of it myself."
"Yes, Captain!" Everyone agreed in unison;
"Lao Liu, let's go back to Dongcheng!"
"Captain, I think we still have things to do!" Yang Laoliu suddenly said to Yang Gan;
"Oh, what else?"
"Although most of the grain, grass, baggage and treasury in the city have been moved, we must take them over. If someone takes the opportunity to cause trouble and robs or burns these things, it will be difficult for the Tang army to deal with them."
"That's right," Yang Gan suddenly realized, and quickly pointed to another village chief and said: "Immediately lead people to take over all the granaries and treasuries in the west of the city, and then send people to guard them so that no one has the opportunity to destroy them. Lao Liu, you can do whatever you want. I will go to the east side of the city to take over, and the county government and the general's office must also take over." New 81 Chinese website updated the fastest computer version:
Yang Laoliu later learned that his move could be said to be a mistake. He killed all the dead soldiers who had left behind to burn the food and supplies, leaving nearly 100,000 shi of food for the Tang army.
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In Fujiabao, Liu Shang and everyone were busy. Fu Yang had returned an hour ago. Caojiabao agreed to his suggestion. The eldest son of the Cao family led fifty servants of his family and him. They came together to pay homage to Liu Shang, and then everyone began to prepare to send all the prisoners to Caojiabao overnight.
By the time of the third watch, all the more than 4,000 prisoners were tied up in teams of ten with ropes. Just as they were preparing to leave the fort, suddenly from the official road to the east, two fast horses came running with torches. He had no intention of hiding his whereabouts.
Soon the two war horses galloped outside the fort gate. The two knights dismounted and shouted to the soldiers on duty above the fort gate: "Open the door quickly. If there is any urgent military situation, report it to the general!"
After the soldiers on the gate tower saw the two men clearly, they immediately opened the gate and allowed the two men to enter the castle.
After the two entered the fort, they headed directly towards the courtyard where Liu Shang and others were. Running wildly, the two of them soon arrived in front of several people. Ignoring the salute, one of them said: "General, what's wrong, Dingyang... the west gate of Dingyang opened and came out... a large wave of soldiers and horses came out. At the head were thousands of cavalry, and you can barely see the side behind them."
"Ah..." Everyone was shocked!
"How many soldiers and horses are there?" Liu Shang asked hurriedly;
Both cavalrymen shook their heads: "I don't know. I couldn't see clearly in the dark night. After the two Huns cavalry left the city gate, they cooperated with thousands of infantry and came west along the official road. There were two Brother is lurking on the roadside to observe the situation, I don’t know how many soldiers there are!”
"Could it be that the Dingyang army is planning to send heavy troops to capture Fujiabao and deal with the threat to the west of Dingyang while the army in the east is not attacking the city overnight?" Yu Xin asked;
"There is a possibility. Send the order and prepare all the troops. It seems that we still have a big battle to fight today." Liu Shang ordered;
"No!" Following his order, the entire Tang army in Fujiabao began to prepare for the war.
More than half an hour later, the vanguard of the Dingyang coalition finally arrived at the official road to the south of Fujiabao. The generals standing on the fort looked at the official road in front of them, their faces were as sinking as water, and they were speechless for a long time. . Looking from the fort to the official road, although there are not many torches on the official road,
But it was several miles long, and in the light of the torches, it looked vaguely filled with soldiers and horses.
After a long time, Liu Shang said slowly: "Let the soldiers be ready and light all the torches on the wall of Ranwu Fort. Since a big war is unavoidable, let's have a big war. We only need to wait until dawn." , the army from the east will launch an attack on the east wall of Dingyang. At that time, Dingyang City will not be able to withstand it without these armies for defense. "
Following his order, the entire Fujiabao was like a huge lit brazier, illuminating the surrounding area. Not only that, within a hundred steps around Wubao, dozens of huge fire pits had been prepared. The fire was also lit by the Tang army, and now the area within two hundred steps around Fujiabao was illuminated like daylight.
However, what surprised the Tang army officers and soldiers was that the Dingyang coalition's attack did not start for a long time. The first one thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry stood in formation facing Fujiabao on the north side of the official road, but they did not take another step closer to Wubao, but stood there quietly.
At first, the generals of the Tang Army thought that the baggage trains of the Dingyang Alliance Army were towing siege equipment. Who knew that those baggage trains went directly from the official road to the west without stopping, and the trains guarding the baggage trains were Thousands of coalition troops also directly escorted the convoy heading west.
By the time the last wave of troops arrived, the coalition forces above the official line had reached nearly 10,000 people. I thought that the coalition forces would launch an attack at this time. Who knew that the first batch of 4,000 infantry and cavalry actually formed a formation? , walked along the side of the convoy towards the front of the entire team, while the thousands of allied troops who were behind were standing in formation on the north side of the official road facing Fujiabao, still watching quietly, and no soldiers came forward to invite a fight. No general came to persuade him to surrender.
Seeing this situation, Liu Shang suddenly realized: "No, the Dingyang coalition is trying to escape!"
"I thought, it's been an hour, and they haven't attacked yet. They are just running away. General, why don't we catch up and take two more pieces of meat!" Ren Fang said loudly;
"Impossible," Yuan Quan objected, "Didn't you see that they have 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry behind them? How many people do we have? How can we possibly hold them back? Besides, the situation in Dingyang City is unclear now, and we have no way to let General Tian Yu know about the escape of the Dingyang coalition forces, so my opinion is to wait and see!"
After thinking for a while, Liu Shang finally made up his mind. As Yuan Quan said, the situation in Dingyang was unclear. If he could hold back the enemy and the army could arrive as soon as possible, it would be fine. If not, it is estimated that even if all his more than 4,000 troops were put in, there would not be much results.
"We can't move. We will make a decision tomorrow morning after confirming the situation in Dingyang City."
After all the coalition's baggage wagons left for an hour, Xu Huang, who was responsible for the rear guard, led the 5,000 troops to slowly withdraw and disappeared into the vast night in the west. First release
During this time, Fang Ge requested to go out to investigate the situation several times, but was suppressed by Liu Shang and Yu Xin, so he was unable to go. What they didn't know was that a calm general like Xu Huang would not be unprepared? He had actually set up an ambush several miles west of Fujiabao, waiting for the pursuit of the Tang army. Unfortunately, Liu Shang and Yu Xin were both cautious people and did not send out any pursuit troops. Seeing that it was about to dawn, Xu Huang led thousands of ambush troops to chase the army.
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